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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun licentiate has 1 senses

   licentiate(n = noun.person) Array - holds a license (degree) from a (European) university; Array
is a kind of
bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

licentiate, n. [LL. licentiatus, fr. licentiare to allow to do anything, fr. L. licentia license. See License, n.].

1.  One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. [1913 Webster]
"The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor." [1913 Webster]

2.  A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

3.  One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]

4.  On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor. [1913 Webster]


licentiate, v. t.

   To give a license to. L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

licentiate, n.
1 a holder of a certificate of competence to practise a certain profession, or of a university licence.
2 a licensed preacher not yet having an appointment, esp. in a Presbyterian church.

Etymology:
ME f. med.L licentiatus past part. of licentiare f. L licentia: see LICENCE